INTERDISCIPLINARY AREAS OF KNOWLEDGEEducational Sciences (Child and Educational Psychology, Sociology of Education, Political Science of Education, Economics of Education, Anthropology of Education, Neurosciences and Early Learning, Educational Disciplines)

Study programme type

university

Study level

integrated undergraduate and graduate

Study programme

Integrated graduate and graduate study of Primary School Education

Academic title abbreviation

mag.prim.educ.

Genre

master's thesis

Language

Croatian

Defense date

2016-07-15

Parallel abstract (English)

Teachers are exposed to high expectations in the workplace and taking a variety of roles, which is why they and other supportive professions are exposed to professional burnout. Previous studies of burnout among Croatian teachers show lower levels of burnout. Therefore, this paper is based on the hypothesis that teachers perceive lower levels of burnout, there are differences in relation to socio-demographic characteristics of the teacher, and that higher levels of burnout are experienced by teachers employed in special educational institutions.
The study included 223 teachers employed in regular educational institutions and 37 teachers employed in special educational institutions. Maslach Burnout Inventory was used (Maslach et al., 1997).
Teachers rarely experienced by emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, and often experience a sense of personal accoplishment, although there are differences in the experience of professional burnout in relation to socio-demographic characteristics of teachers. Emotional exhaustion is often experienced by teachers who are older than 40 years compared to teachers who have 29-39 years, teachers with 16 or more years of service in relation to the teachers who have less than 16 years of service, and those teachers who reported that the class they teach does not attend students with disabilities. Depersonalization is often experienced by male teachers, although the resulting data should be viewed with caution because of the disproportionate number of male and female teachers. A sense of personal accoplishment is higher among teachers who have completed a two-year professional study in relation to other teachers.
According to previous croatian researches, teachers are experiencing low levels of burnout, which are associated with age, years of service, level of graduation and their testimony about teaching students with disabilities.